Below is a collection of quotes.

Anarchism

 

An anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste. […] Once you begin to look at human society from an anarchist point of view you discover that the alternatives are already there, in the interstices of the dominant power structure. If you want to build a free society, the parts are all at hand.

— Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action

Education

 

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

— Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

 

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

— Paolo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

 

Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

— Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

 

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

— Paolo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

 

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

— Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

 

The pupil is thereby ‘schooled’ to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

— Ivan Illich, On Deschooling

 

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on — because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.

— Noam Chomsky, Interview